The Stratford Festival has fired up and Susan and I have a nice schedule of plays to attend sprinkled over the next few months. I love live theatre and have envisioned this chapter from John’s gospel played out on a stage.

“There’s a whole lotta respiration goin’ on” (with apologies to Jerry Lee Lewis). We are well into Spring growth - grass and dandelions compete for attention, foliage is filling out the trees, plants are poking up testing the air.

Recently the search for Franklin’s lost ships was on my mind. They were lost nearly 170 years ago, and the many search expeditions used all the modern tools at their disposal in futile efforts to find the “Erebus” and “Terror”.

A modern-day Dante could create circles of Hell for time spent on the phone with cable, phone, and credit card agents punishing us for our sins. We’d be lashed with long waits with brutal music, stupid service, misleading service, abusive service – the lack of resolution of problems would be our eternal punishment.

You probably don’t have champagne handy but I liked someone’s idea that we ought to crack it open on the Monday after Easter. It was his idea of combating the letdown that follows the intensity of our dark reflections on the cross and the joyful remembrance of the resurrection.

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